Brian Roewe

"Al-Mizan: A Covenant for the Earth" represents "the collective voice of the Islamic community on environmental issues," its authors write, and calls all Muslims to be responsible stewards of the Earth. 

As Kansas City prepared to celebrate its Super Bowl win, local Catholic John Lopez prayed on Feb. 14 there would be "no violence ... just have everybody come together as a community." Hours later, those prayers were dashed.

Faith leaders welcomed a new Environmental Protection Agency limit on soot. The change is estimated by 2032 to prevent as many as 4,500 premature deaths and 800,000 asthma cases each year. 

John Podesta, President Joe Biden's pick as new adviser to the president for international climate policy, is seen as knowledgeable about Catholic teaching on environmental issues and committed to the message of Laudato Si'.  

A new remote course offers Catholics a chance to dive deeper into Pope Francis' environmental teachings and his vision of integral ecology with guidance from academics and experts at the Vatican and beyond.

The scientific community reports that 2023 was the hottest year on record. Carmelite climate scientist Fr. Eduardo Agosta Scarel says this evidence should empower Catholics to do something about climate change.

John Kerry, a Catholic politician who has welcomed and amplified Pope Francis' intervention on the issue of climate change, will be leaving his post as the lead climate negotiator for the United States.

The San Diego Diocese has divested its financial holdings from the fossil fuel industry, the first Catholic diocese in the U.S. to make public such a move in response to Pope Francis' calls to address climate change.

The Chicago Archdiocese has announced that its nearly 400 parishes, schools, cemeteries and offices will switch to 100% renewable energy sources for its electricity need, beginning in January. 

While the COP28 president and numerous countries hailed the U.N. summit's agreement to shift away from fossil fuels as a historic breakthrough, Catholic officials present viewed it with mixed reactions.

Laudato Si' Movement has named Susana Réfega as the new leader of the global network of 900-plus Catholic organizations working to elevate ecological spirituality and action on climate change throughout the church.

Nations meeting in Dubai should adopt a new treaty charting the end of fossil fuel use, a group of Catholic institutions wrote in a letter to the president of the COP28 climate change summit.

Countries are the primary focus at the climate COPs, but they're far from the only participants. Since the 1992 Earth Summit, people of faith have been regular participants. 

The first-ever Faith Pavilion at a U.N. climate change conference was inaugurated Dec. 3 in Dubai, with video messages from the pope and the grand imam of Al-Azhar, who both called the world to work for peace and preserving a livable climate.

Delivering a message Pope Francis had hoped to offer in person, Cardinal Pietro Parolin urged the United Nations climate summit in Dubai to achieve a "breakthrough" and become a turning point for the world. 

The U.S. bishops added their voice to calls for the U.N. climate summit to usher in a decisive transition toward clean energy, describing decarbonization as "the preeminent environmental challenge faced by all nations."

A U.N. climate summit facing the daunting task to put countries back on track to prevent catastrophic global warming will take place without Pope Francis. Catholics heading to COP28 vowed his message would still be heard.

Environmental groups say the East African Crude Oil Pipeline undermines goals to combat climate change and threatens to ruin ecosystems and displace communities. A new report alleges the threat also extends to the dead.

Catholics hope Pope Francis' first-ever papal visit to a United Nations climate change conference at COP28 in Dubai this year can be the push international climate talks need to get back on track.

Religious leaders have called on decision-makers to use COP28 to usher in a rapid transition to clean energy sources, and for nations to establish accountability mechanisms to hold them to climate action pledges.